Albums of the Autumn 5
White Zombie: Astro Creep: 2000 Songs of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of Electric Head
(Geffen 1995)
I'm bit late here, as Astro Creep is one perfect Halloween-album - that's usually the time of the year I dig up the old teen-time favorite, and hear how the monstrous, partly mechanic creepy crawlies come out from their hiding. Album sounds very heavy, tunes rock and samples from horrormovies (?) give the otherwise physical album somewhat eerie touch. I say physical, as there's still something very physical in the tight and straight-forward whole. And yet there's even one of the most beautiful ballads on that album - Blood Milk And Sky, that closes the album, bringing those empty winds mentioned in the lyrics scraping on listeners soul. Maybe that's also the song that links this albm to autumn, not just a nostalgy trip to hormon-rushed agony and extacy.
Teenage isn't easy for anybody, but in the mid-90's White Zombie offered some relief by embodying some of the general frustration to music, that combined both aggressivity and... danceability. White Zombie was never quite as dancelike as Rob Zombie's solo-stuff, but the seeds are there. Oh, and let's not forget the positive rolemodel White Zombie offered as well. I literally looked up to their ice-cool bassist Sean Yseult, as a mega size-poster of her replaced some random Sebastian Bach-pictures on my wall immediately after that issue of Metal Hammer was out. Not the pretty girly mega-poster there was later but the first mega poster with Sean alone with bass and such nailpolish I also had (!). The orange bass, that had a picture of a face that along teenage girls was rumored to be "man who formed Satan's church", but in fact turned out to be Bela Lugosi, as seen in the movie "White Zombie"... Also the front-males, singer Rob Zombie and guitarist J. made rather puzzling appearances in my dreams, but that's another story.
Astro Creep presented White Zombie at their prime, being their most tight and solid album, but in a way it also was their swansong, being followed only by a remix-album and singer Rob Zombie going on solo career after that.
White Zombie played in Finland once, and I missed that gig. (And still regret.)
Edit: Video for the hit-song More Human Than Human http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXpbrGBIGxw
Again, thanks to growing up without cable TV, I saw that video for the first time in my life now...
Edit 2: White Zombie covering Black Sabbath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36nj-TS420Y - isn't even from the album I'm presenting here, but gives a perfect example of the band's style.
(Geffen 1995)
I'm bit late here, as Astro Creep is one perfect Halloween-album - that's usually the time of the year I dig up the old teen-time favorite, and hear how the monstrous, partly mechanic creepy crawlies come out from their hiding. Album sounds very heavy, tunes rock and samples from horrormovies (?) give the otherwise physical album somewhat eerie touch. I say physical, as there's still something very physical in the tight and straight-forward whole. And yet there's even one of the most beautiful ballads on that album - Blood Milk And Sky, that closes the album, bringing those empty winds mentioned in the lyrics scraping on listeners soul. Maybe that's also the song that links this albm to autumn, not just a nostalgy trip to hormon-rushed agony and extacy.
Teenage isn't easy for anybody, but in the mid-90's White Zombie offered some relief by embodying some of the general frustration to music, that combined both aggressivity and... danceability. White Zombie was never quite as dancelike as Rob Zombie's solo-stuff, but the seeds are there. Oh, and let's not forget the positive rolemodel White Zombie offered as well. I literally looked up to their ice-cool bassist Sean Yseult, as a mega size-poster of her replaced some random Sebastian Bach-pictures on my wall immediately after that issue of Metal Hammer was out. Not the pretty girly mega-poster there was later but the first mega poster with Sean alone with bass and such nailpolish I also had (!). The orange bass, that had a picture of a face that along teenage girls was rumored to be "man who formed Satan's church", but in fact turned out to be Bela Lugosi, as seen in the movie "White Zombie"... Also the front-males, singer Rob Zombie and guitarist J. made rather puzzling appearances in my dreams, but that's another story.
Astro Creep presented White Zombie at their prime, being their most tight and solid album, but in a way it also was their swansong, being followed only by a remix-album and singer Rob Zombie going on solo career after that.
White Zombie played in Finland once, and I missed that gig. (And still regret.)
Edit: Video for the hit-song More Human Than Human http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXpbrGBIGxw
Again, thanks to growing up without cable TV, I saw that video for the first time in my life now...
Edit 2: White Zombie covering Black Sabbath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36nj-TS420Y - isn't even from the album I'm presenting here, but gives a perfect example of the band's style.